[Grok-dev] Re: Patch to grokproject

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2007, at 19:33 , Luciano Ramalho wrote:
[snip]
>> But I agree that a good framework should reduce the need for
>> boilerplate code to a minimum.
> 
> Right. Grok should probably grow a little bit of code that would make 
> the testing boilerplate in grokproject superfluous, or at least reduce 
> it to a minimum...

While I can see grokproject generating the crufty test boilerplate for 
convenience reasons *temporarily*, I'd prefer to put our energies into 
this: making testing easier in grok, using the martian infrastructure to 
find tests.

The danger of temporarily generating boilerplate is that people's 
priorities to fix the *real* problem will be decreased, and we'll be 
stuck with the boilerplate forever. That said, if get a volunteer 
commitment to really fix this within a few months, so we can take out 
the boilerplate generation stuff again, we could extend grokproject to 
be a temporary cruft-generator...

Regards,

Martijn